Job Description
Position Title: Product Owner
Location: Santa Clara, CA (Remote)
Job Type: Contract
Let's create our future together at The AES Group!
About The AES Group:
The AES Group is a premier technology consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, and other emerging technologies.
Job Description:
Must have skills: Product Planning and Road mapping, Roadmap Creation (Strong)
Good to have skills: Understands the product outcome and benefits to customers, to the market, to the business.
- Also, the agile development processes and organization way of working.
- Gather functional requirements and conceptualize features that meet customer needs.
- Ensure non-functional requirements are taken into consideration as well.
- Leads the product definition in two teams in collaboration with their scrum master and development team (UI/UX team, architecture, engineering, compliance, business analyst ) including other relevant inputs that may affect the scope of the product (medical affairs, data security, data privacy and legal).
- Owns and facilitates features and user story refinement and planning sessions inside the SAFe framework methodology.
- Manages every team product backlog and prioritization of user stories, ensuring the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all.
- Ensure every team is focused on developing the deliverables that provide the optimum value for the user and the business.
- Approves product increments on sprint reviews, and acceptance of final iteration plan.
- Accountable for the definition of done as well as the acceptance.
- Leads the product development team(s) and guides implementation.
- Responsible for every team vision and release plan aligned with the product roadmap, in close collaboration with other relevant teams and the Agile Release Train.
- Coordinates dependencies between teams and other product owners, external partners, and shared service interfaces both inside and outside of R&D
- Accountable for the delivery of the product and features according to release plan
- Communication and conflict management directly with stakeholders.
- Adhere to best practices and company procedures and ensure they are followed by teams
- Experience in product management and development in B2B or B2B2C industries in a global organization.
- +10 years of experience in the product development lifecycle
- +5 years of experience in product management roles, product roadmap strategies and backlog management for large products.
- Strong understanding of key technologies, frameworks and vendors for product development.
- Technical background to be able to successfully interact with the development teams, understand trade-offs and exercise independent judgment and decision-making responsibilities
- Strong understanding of the product context and ability to contribute to strategic decisions.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to gather business requirements, understand customer needs and transform into features or solutions that meet needs of users.
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate about software features, solutions, ideas to teams and customers.
- Experience in the relevant specific topics, either complex cloud-based applications, mobile applications, embedded software.
- Demonstrated successful delivery across full product life cycles, from concept to marketable products in iterations, including design transfers to support and launch readiness.
- Experience in working with agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and scaled agile frameworks (e.g. SAFe, Spotify). SAFe certification is a plus.
- Experience in product management, project management and collaboration tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Miro, G-suite..).
- Ability to work effectively in a big team setup, with team members in different locations, including 3rd parties.
- Ability to orchestrate multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
- Good communication skills, excellent team collaboration and decision-making ability.
- Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment, being able to adapt quickly and support during the change management process
- Strategic and analytical thinking, creative problem-solving skills.
What we offer:
- Competitive pay with a focus on your performance and outcomes
- Professional growth opportunities that enable you to connect and collaborate with industry leaders and drive business value for some of the world's most innovative and forward-thinking companies
- Open and collaborative environment where your contributions help shape The AES Group into something that works for you, not just a company you happen to work for
Let your future start with The AES Group and join our mission to create the most positive impact on society with the power of technology. Apply now.
Job Tags
Contract work, Remote job,